Caitlyn Jenner Opens Up About Undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery

Caitlyn Jenner's new memoir, The Secrets of My Life, won't be out until April 25 — but according to RadarOnline.com, the book reveals that Caitlyn Jenner has undergone gender confirmation surgery. "The surgery was a success, and I feel not only wonderful but liberated," she reportedly writes. "I am telling you because I believe in candor. So all of you can stop staring. You want to know, so now you know. Which is why this is the first time, and the last time, I will ever speak of it."

Like anyone else, Jenner deserves to feel at home in her body, and gender confirmation surgery, it appears, helped her accomplish that. Getting surgery isn't on every trans person's list of priorities, however, contrary to popular belief: according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, only about a third of trans people report undergoing gender-confirming surgery of some kind. While this statistic is likely due in part to access, it's also true that many trans people just don't feel the need or desire for surgery.

What all trans people deserve, however, is freedom from scrutiny directed at their body parts. It's no one's right to know what's between anyone else's legs, and it's unfortunate that Jenner felt she had to explain a personal decision in order to get people to "stop staring." No one's privacy should have to come at the cost of them divulging the details of their genitals.